From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Mon Apr 3 16:14:06 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA140995; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:14:06 +1000 (EST) Received: from gateway.ntu.edu.sg (gateway.ntu.edu.sg [155.69.1.127]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA79092 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:13:38 +1000 (EST) Received: by gateway.ntu.edu.sg with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <2FVSTRJ2>; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:13:04 +0800 Message-ID: <1DD1B50DBE02D311909900805FA7424B014E8FF1@EXCHANGE5> From: "Ang Peng Hwa (Assoc Prof)" To: "'APPLe'" Subject: Net libel case Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:13:11 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Folks, This group has been deafeningly silent on this major case so I thought I should throw in my 2 cents. This is from Quicklinks: >* Demon settles net libel case (BBC) >A UK internet service provider has settled a libel case in a >move which could have wide-ranging implications for online >publishers. >http://www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem7132.htm I'm not so sure that the case has all the implications that the hype, BBC notwithstanding, suggests. It involves Laurence Godfrey, who has been successful in a couple of online libel cases. In fact, I had mentioned his name in my lecture on libel so it was a "treat" for my students to see his name come up at this time. Godfrey apparently wrote *several* times to Demon to remove the forged posting. Demon did not. This is not a case of a remark made about someone and there is a question as to the veracity of the remark. This case is: I appeared to have made this statement and I am now telling you that I did not so please remove it. True, courts do not always understand technology. But courts understand reasonableness. And it seems to be that Demon's (in)action was unreasonable. That's it. End of "wide-ranging implications for online publishers." The wider implication for online folks is that if someonbe by the name of Laurence Godfrey knocks on your door and says "Excuse me but I think I've been libelled by you," serve him a cup of tea and listen carefully. Ang Peng Hwa * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Mon Apr 3 17:48:59 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA87880; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:48:58 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA87874 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:48:55 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 13051 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Apr 2000 07:48:52 -0000 Message-ID: <20000403074852.13050.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 03 Apr 2000 17:48:52 EST Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:48:52 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Ask Dr Weil - Are You Addicted to the Internet? To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello all An interesting, if you find these things interesting, summary on addiction to the Internet. See http://www.pathfinder.com/drweil/qa_answer/0,3189,1790,00.html. Cheers David Are You Addicted to the Internet? Q. I recently heard a psychologist talk about "Internet addiction." Is there really such a thing? I spend a lot of time online and would like to know if I have anything to worry about. -- Matthew F. A. (Published 3/31/00) Psychologists don't agree on whether or not Internet addiction exists. I think most of us are simply enjoying the conveniences the Web offers -- e-mail, online shopping, online banking, etc. That said, I have read some persuasive evidence that people are spending far too much time on the Web. Last year, an ABC News survey of more than 17,000 people found that about 6 percent of those who surf the Net could be considered "addicted." The psychologist who worked with ABC on the survey, David N. Greenfield, Ph.D., has now written a book on the subject ("Virtual Addiction," New Harbinger Publications, Inc.). He describes Internet addiction as highly compulsive behavior that poses the risk of "increased social isolation and withdrawal, a possible increase in depression, family separation, marital problems, and reduced job performance." Greenfield contends that compulsive use of the Internet produces the same type of tolerance and withdrawal as other addictions. He theorizes that Internet addiction is similar in nature to compulsive gambling: "It seems that the stimulating effect of gambling parallels what Internet abusers typically report...the excitement of not knowing what you're going to experience when you log on (or when you gamble), and that's part of the fun." In his book, Greenfield lists the "Seven Critical Signs of Internet Addiction." They include: You spend many hours online, often neglecting other crucial areas in your life. Your friends and family think you have a problem with Internet use. You're in your twenties (the younger you are, the greater the likelihood that you're addicted). You've had serious negative consequences from your Internet use. You perceive your Internet experience as intensely intimate. You keep the amount of time you spend online a secret. You can't wait to get online on a regular, even daily, basis. As with other types of addiction, the first step to recovery is acknowledging the problem. Greenfield lists 13 steps toward recovery, including taking a technology holiday (stop using the computer daily), developing other interests, exercising, talking to friends and family about your excessive Internet use, trying counseling or psychotherapy, joining a support group, and becoming aware of your rituals and triggers to go online. I've advocated similar steps for "news addiction," which often correlates with unhealthy mental states, including anxiety, sadness, and depression. If you're worried about the amount of time you spend online and its effect on the rest of your life, take a look at Greenfield's book and follow his sensible advice on weaning yourself from an unhealthy preoccupation with the Net. Dr. Andrew Weil _____________________________________________________________________________ http://www.yahoo.com.au/wedsite - The Wed Site - Planning a wedding? Get all the help you need. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Apr 5 22:10:26 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA84202; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:10:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA84190 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:10:14 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 29800 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Apr 2000 12:10:11 -0000 Message-ID: <20000405121011.29799.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:10:11 EST Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:10:11 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: U.N. chief revises charter, cites Net as key issue To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all The UN has just released a 58 page report that ‘is intended to form the basis of discussion for what is billed as the biggest gathering of world leaders at a summit set for Sept. 6-8’. The report makes a few mentions of the Internet, including the following initiatives: ‘• a volunteer corps called the United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) to train groups in developing countries how to use information technology; • a Health InterNetwork to establish 10,000 online sites in hospitals and clinics in developing countries to provide access to the latest medical information; • a disaster response initiative, "First on the Ground," led by Ericsson communications, to provide uninterrupted communications to areas hit by natural disasters; • and a global network to explore new approaches to youth employment.‘ See http://www.un.org/millennium/sg/report/ for the full report. Cheers David U.N. chief revises charter, cites Net as key issue By Reuters Special to CNET News.com April 3, 2000, 2:05 p.m. PT URL: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1629383.html UNITED NATIONS--In a sweeping report prepared as a blueprint for a Millennium U.N. Summit, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan set a course today for a 21st century born of benevolent globalization and human solidarity, with a big boost from the Internet. The report is studded with proposals for making good on many of the languishing ideals of the 55-year-old U.N. Charter. They range from halving the proportion of the world's population existing on less than a dollar a day--currently 22 percent--by the year 2015, to halting and reversing the scourge of AIDS. U.N. members also are called on to commit themselves to ensuring that by 2015 all children complete primary schooling and that the gender gap is eliminated at all levels of education. The 58-page document, presented to the 188-nation U.N. General Assembly, is intended to form the basis of discussion for what is billed as the biggest gathering of world leaders at a summit set for Sept. 6-8. "We must put people at the center of everything we do. No calling is more noble, and no responsibility greater, than that of enabling men, women and children, in cities and in villages around the world, to make their lives better," Annan wrote. In the most sweeping redefinition of the world organization's mission since its founding in 1945, Annan set ambitious goals for a planet whose population has more than doubled since then--from fewer than 2.5 billion to 6 billion people. It is also a world body, he noted, whose work habits are now dictated by the communications revolution rather than the leisurely sailing schedules of ocean liners that once brought diplomats to New York. "The Internet is the fastest-growing instrument of communication in the history of civilization, and it may be the most rapidly disseminating tool of any kind ever," said Annan, now in the fourth year of his five-year term. Among the initiatives he announced were: • a volunteer corps called the United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) to train groups in developing countries how to use information technology; • a Health InterNetwork to establish 10,000 online sites in hospitals and clinics in developing countries to provide access to the latest medical information; • a disaster response initiative, "First on the Ground," led by Ericsson communications, to provide uninterrupted communications to areas hit by natural disasters; • and a global network to explore new approaches to youth employment. Despite its promise, globalization has begun to generate a backlash, Annan said, because its benefits and opportunities seem highly concentrated among a relatively small number of countries and are spread unevenly within them. "Thus the central challenge we face today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the world's people, instead of leaving billions of them behind in squalor," he said. Introducing his report to the General Assembly today, Annan asked: "How can we say that the half of the human race which has yet to make or receive a telephone call, let alone use a computer, is taking part in globalization? We cannot without insulting their poverty." Listing global issues under the headings of freedom from want, freedom from fear, and the freedom of future generations to sustain their lives on this planet, he said the last was not clearly identified in the U.N. Charter "because in 1945 our founders could scarcely imagine that it would ever be threatened." "If I could sum it up in one sentence, I should say we are plundering our children's heritage to pay for our present unsustainable practices," Annan said, calling for the reduction of "greenhouse gases" responsible for global warming. Many of his proposals aim at attaining long-standing objectives, including free access to markets for goods from poor countries; an expansion of debt-relief programs for the most heavily burdened; and cooperation with pharmaceutical companies and others to develop an affordable vaccine for AIDS. In the age-old fight against the scourge of war, Annan urged all countries to sign and honor treaties in the fields of arms control and international and human rights law. He specifically referred to the statute of an International Criminal Court, which too few countries have so far ratified to enable it to enter into force and about which the United States has strong reservations. Other goals include: • strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to conduct peace operations--more of which are being launched; • targeting sanctions against delinquent rulers rather than innocent populations--an issue that has come to prominence in the case of Iraq; • and curbing the illegal traffic in small arms that fuel innumerable wars. Referring to two principles that the United Nations has yet to harmonize--and which came to the fore with the Kosovo crisis--Annan told the Assembly, "National sovereignty offers vital protection to small and weak states, but it should not be a shield for crimes against humanity. "In extreme cases the clash of these two principles confronts us with a real dilemma, and the Security Council may have a moral duty to act on behalf of the international community. But in most cases the international community should be able to preserve peace by measures which do not infringe state sovereignty," he said. Story Copyright © 2000 Reuters Limited. 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Get all the help you need. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Apr 5 22:11:41 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA84270; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:11:40 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA84262 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:11:37 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 114 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Apr 2000 12:11:29 -0000 Message-ID: <20000405121129.113.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:11:29 EST Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:11:29 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: U.N. chief revises charter, cites Net as key issue To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi Richard The UN has just released a 58 page report that ‘is intended to form the basis of discussion for what is billed as the biggest gathering of world leaders at a summit set for Sept. 6-8’. The report makes a few mentions of the Internet, including the following initiatives: ‘• a volunteer corps called the United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) to train groups in developing countries how to use information technology; • a Health InterNetwork to establish 10,000 online sites in hospitals and clinics in developing countries to provide access to the latest medical information; • a disaster response initiative, "First on the Ground," led by Ericsson communications, to provide uninterrupted communications to areas hit by natural disasters; • and a global network to explore new approaches to youth employment.‘ See http://www.un.org/millennium/sg/report/ for the full report. By the way, I can't subscribe to Quicklinks for some reason. I keep trying to subscribe and nothing happens. I am trying to subscribe to wavey_one@yahoo.com if you can help! Cheers David U.N. chief revises charter, cites Net as key issue By Reuters Special to CNET News.com April 3, 2000, 2:05 p.m. PT URL: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1629383.html UNITED NATIONS--In a sweeping report prepared as a blueprint for a Millennium U.N. Summit, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan set a course today for a 21st century born of benevolent globalization and human solidarity, with a big boost from the Internet. The report is studded with proposals for making good on many of the languishing ideals of the 55-year-old U.N. Charter. They range from halving the proportion of the world's population existing on less than a dollar a day--currently 22 percent--by the year 2015, to halting and reversing the scourge of AIDS. U.N. members also are called on to commit themselves to ensuring that by 2015 all children complete primary schooling and that the gender gap is eliminated at all levels of education. The 58-page document, presented to the 188-nation U.N. General Assembly, is intended to form the basis of discussion for what is billed as the biggest gathering of world leaders at a summit set for Sept. 6-8. "We must put people at the center of everything we do. No calling is more noble, and no responsibility greater, than that of enabling men, women and children, in cities and in villages around the world, to make their lives better," Annan wrote. In the most sweeping redefinition of the world organization's mission since its founding in 1945, Annan set ambitious goals for a planet whose population has more than doubled since then--from fewer than 2.5 billion to 6 billion people. It is also a world body, he noted, whose work habits are now dictated by the communications revolution rather than the leisurely sailing schedules of ocean liners that once brought diplomats to New York. "The Internet is the fastest-growing instrument of communication in the history of civilization, and it may be the most rapidly disseminating tool of any kind ever," said Annan, now in the fourth year of his five-year term. Among the initiatives he announced were: • a volunteer corps called the United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) to train groups in developing countries how to use information technology; • a Health InterNetwork to establish 10,000 online sites in hospitals and clinics in developing countries to provide access to the latest medical information; • a disaster response initiative, "First on the Ground," led by Ericsson communications, to provide uninterrupted communications to areas hit by natural disasters; • and a global network to explore new approaches to youth employment. Despite its promise, globalization has begun to generate a backlash, Annan said, because its benefits and opportunities seem highly concentrated among a relatively small number of countries and are spread unevenly within them. "Thus the central challenge we face today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the world's people, instead of leaving billions of them behind in squalor," he said. Introducing his report to the General Assembly today, Annan asked: "How can we say that the half of the human race which has yet to make or receive a telephone call, let alone use a computer, is taking part in globalization? We cannot without insulting their poverty." Listing global issues under the headings of freedom from want, freedom from fear, and the freedom of future generations to sustain their lives on this planet, he said the last was not clearly identified in the U.N. Charter "because in 1945 our founders could scarcely imagine that it would ever be threatened." "If I could sum it up in one sentence, I should say we are plundering our children's heritage to pay for our present unsustainable practices," Annan said, calling for the reduction of "greenhouse gases" responsible for global warming. Many of his proposals aim at attaining long-standing objectives, including free access to markets for goods from poor countries; an expansion of debt-relief programs for the most heavily burdened; and cooperation with pharmaceutical companies and others to develop an affordable vaccine for AIDS. In the age-old fight against the scourge of war, Annan urged all countries to sign and honor treaties in the fields of arms control and international and human rights law. He specifically referred to the statute of an International Criminal Court, which too few countries have so far ratified to enable it to enter into force and about which the United States has strong reservations. Other goals include: • strengthening the capacity of the United Nations to conduct peace operations--more of which are being launched; • targeting sanctions against delinquent rulers rather than innocent populations--an issue that has come to prominence in the case of Iraq; • and curbing the illegal traffic in small arms that fuel innumerable wars. Referring to two principles that the United Nations has yet to harmonize--and which came to the fore with the Kosovo crisis--Annan told the Assembly, "National sovereignty offers vital protection to small and weak states, but it should not be a shield for crimes against humanity. "In extreme cases the clash of these two principles confronts us with a real dilemma, and the Security Council may have a moral duty to act on behalf of the international community. But in most cases the international community should be able to preserve peace by measures which do not infringe state sovereignty," he said. Story Copyright © 2000 Reuters Limited. 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Get all the help you need. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Thu Apr 6 00:34:16 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA95343; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 00:34:15 +1000 (EST) Received: from mail1.cisco.com (mail1.cisco.com [171.68.225.60]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA95333 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 00:34:10 +1000 (EST) Received: from bgreenent2 (bgreene-dsl2.cisco.com [144.254.193.59]) by mail1.cisco.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/CISCO.SERVER.1.2) with SMTP id HAA01687 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 07:34:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Barry Raveendran Greene" To: "APPLe" Subject: FW: Court: Programming languages covered by First Amendment Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 07:30:06 -0700 Message-ID: <006601bf9f0b$700a67d0$5e01a8c0@bgreenent2.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Interesting: ----------- Court: Programming languages covered by First Amendment By Patricia Jacobus Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 4, 2000, 6:15 p.m. PT A federal appeals court today cleared the way for a law professor to post previously banned encryption software on the Internet, finding that computer code qualifies as speech protected by the First Amendment. The decision hands the U.S. government yet another defeat in its efforts to keep intact federal rules limiting the export of encryption software. Academics and civil liberties groups have mounted several attacks on the regulations, winning a similar result before an appeals court in California, a decision currently under review. ... Story at: http://aolcom.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-1641004.html?pt.aolc.mynewsfeed http://www.netaid.org * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 7 01:05:36 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA154641; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:05:35 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA154638 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:05:23 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 5672 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Apr 2000 15:05:21 -0000 Message-ID: <20000406150521.5671.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 07 Apr 2000 01:05:20 EST Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:05:20 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Internet stories from The Economist To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk A couple of stories from The Economist, one about Europe's plans to become a big player in cyberspace following a conference a week or so ago, the other about what econmists think of the Internet. See below for links to the stories adn a bit more information. Cheers David BUSINESS SPECIAL - A thinkers’ guide http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_sb3684.html The Internet may have been overhyped by the markets, but it will also make most businesses more efficient. Its impact on economic growth is less obvious, but could be equally dramatic IT IS supposed to reduce distances and bring people closer. Yet the Internet seems to have the opposite effect on economists. The profession is divided on the effects of the Internet. Some predict that it will hugely boost global growth and kill inflation—hence the boom in technology shares. Others retort that inflation is determined solely by the money supply, and that Internet share prices are overvalued. On this basis, when the bubble bursts, it will leave behind little more economic benefit than did the 17th century’s tulip bubble. ... LEADERS - Europe in cyberspace http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld2384.html But it won’t be convincing if it can’t utter the word America A FRENCH author, Georges Perec, once wrote a 300-page novel without using the letter e. To write a 5,000 word manifesto on the “new economy” without once using the word America, or even the words United States, cannot have been much easier, but the European Union’s leaders were equal to the task when they met in Lisbon last week. At the end of a summit devoted mainly to “employment, economic reform and social cohesion”, they produced an 18-page blueprint for “radical transformation of the European economy”, chock-a-block with digital literacy and the like. But admit that Europe is learning from A******? No, thanks. Europe will build its new economy “in a manner consistent with its values and concepts of society”, ie, slowly and late. One big reason European leaders do not mention America in their document may be that they hope to leave vague the embarrassing cause of their onrush of liberalism. As the American economy has gone on growing, as the American stockmarket has refused obstinately to crash, and as the dollar has humiliated the euro, so the Europeans have found their long-accumulating envy of the American boom turning into mild panic. They fear that the United States is pulling so far ahead of them in growth, and investment, and technology, and power, and prosperity, as to deny Europe all hope of catching up for generations at least. Something must be done or, at least, said. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://www.yahoo.com.au/wedsite - The Wed Site - Planning a wedding? Get all the help you need. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 7 18:10:36 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA160984; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:10:34 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA160981 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:10:30 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 10049 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Apr 2000 08:10:21 -0000 Message-ID: <20000407081021.10047.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 07 Apr 2000 18:10:21 EST Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:10:21 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Australia - ABC News - Federal Court makes landmark email ruling To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello all This might be interesting... Cheers David Federal Court makes landmark email ruling http://www.abc.net.au/news/2000/04/item20000407124451_1.htm The Federal Court in Melbourne has made a significant ruling on the use of email in the workplace. Ansett dismissed union delegate Maria Gencarelli after she sent a strongly worded update on Ansett's handling of enterprise bargaining arrangements, alleging she had breached the company's email guidelines. However, the Australian Services Union argued in the Federal Court that Ansett had contravened freedom of association provisions in section 298k of the Workplace Relations Act of 1996. The Federal Court agreed and ruled Ms Gencarelli was illegally dismissed. Ms Gencarelli is relieved the court has found she was not breaching any workplace conditions. "I obviously did not do anything wrong. I was merely communicating some enterprise bargain discussions to our fellow members." The union says the ruling vindicates the use of new technology, such as email, for workers to communicate with each other. Treaty Meanwhile, the Federal Government has been urged to support a special international copyright treaty to combat Internet piracy. The United States-based Business Software Alliance has warned the crime has reached epidemic proportions. The Business Software Alliance says internet piracy costs legitmate players more than $1 billion annually worldwide. It has warned the crime has the potential to slow down or destroy the e-commerce boom unless tougher legal measures are introduced. There are a multitide of web pages called "warez" or "appz" which are set up to download or promote the illegal software and application programs on the net. Alliance president Robert Holleyman, who is in Australia to highlight the issue, says governments around the world must ratify a special intellectual property treaty to provide greater tools to fight the problem. "It won't eliminate piracy but it certainly sets a level playing field, [which] we feel is very important." _____________________________________________________________________________ http://www.yahoo.com.au/wedsite - The Wed Site - Planning a wedding? Get all the help you need. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 7 21:37:55 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA122446; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:37:54 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA162106 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:37:50 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 27696 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Apr 2000 11:37:46 -0000 Message-ID: <20000407113746.27695.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 07 Apr 2000 21:37:46 EST Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:37:46 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: The Economist - Remedies for Microsoft To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A series of articles from The Economist on Who Owns The Information Economy, including 'After the Microsoft verdict' and 'Patent wars'. See http://www.economist.com/tfs/current_issue_tframeset.html for the current issue. Cheers David Remedies for Microsoft - The wisest solution would be for the company itself to embrace a break-up http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/20000408/index_ld0624.html IT MAY have come as a shock to the markets (see article), but few others can have been surprised that Microsoft was this week found guilty. The judge in the antitrust case against the software firm ruled that it was a monopoly that had demonstrated a pattern of abuse, done “violence to the competitive process” and “placed an oppressive thumb on the scale of competitive fortune, thereby guaranteeing its continued dominance”. The strength of the verdict suggests that hopes of a negotiated settlement were always slim (see article). Too often in the past, Bill Gates’s firm has staved off punishment by appearing to accept restraints on its behaviour, only to cock a snook at regulators and resume its aggressive business practices. Although Mr Gates talks earnestly about having “gone the last mile” to achieve a settlement, Microsoft’s proposals were too limited, vague and loophole-ridden to be enforceable. The reality is that the Justice Department, and the 19 states that joined it in the action, regard Microsoft as a hardened recidivist that cannot be trusted. As the courtroom drama moves on to consider remedies, that same lack of trust is sure to lead the plaintiffs to demand penalties of a severe and far-reaching nature. That will not, however, make the judge’s task any easier. The two main aims are easy to state, but hard to balance. The first requirement is that the remedies should deal with the central problem, which is Microsoft’s systematic exploitation of its Windows operating-system monopoly to foreclose potential competition, stifle innovation and gouge consumers. The second requirement is that the remedies should not damage Microsoft’s own ability to innovate. A package of conduct remedies along the lines rejected by Microsoft in the settlement talks might just about have met the first aim. It included provisions to stop Microsoft pricing Windows to reward PC makers who do its bidding while punishing others; to stop it tying products to Windows by sales contract; to end exclusionary contracts; and to stop driving sales up by raising the price of older versions of Windows whenever a new release comes out. Microsoft would also have had to offer a version of Windows without its Internet Explorer browser and to publish details of new versions of its system as soon as they became available to its own developers. The trouble with all these proposals is that they are essentially retrospective (“saving Netscape with hindsight”), and they are unlikely to stimulate new competition. They would also require permanent and intrusive policing. Worse, such conduct remedies would not meet the second requirement, because they would not preserve what is good about Microsoft. A future as a semi-regulated monopoly on never-ending probation—still highly profitable, but increasingly dull-witted and unrewarding to work for—would be a living death. Microsoft hopes to avoid such a fate by betting on a more sympathetic hearing on appeal. It may even get one, but it is highly unlikely that the company will emerge unscathed. There is no knowing which way the Supreme Court, which is where this matter will ultimately be resolved, will swing, but it would not be the first time in the course of this case that Microsoft has miscalculated. Break it up Paradoxically, the more extreme solution of breaking the firm up into at least two Windows companies and an applications firm might now be the best outcome, not only for the Justice Department but also for Microsoft itself. It would bring the discipline of real competition to the operating-system companies, and release a wave of pent-up innovation from the firm’s clever staff. At the same time, it would put an end to Microsoft’s unhealthy passion for vertical integration and proprietary standards. A bolder and more imaginative Mr Gates would now consider restructuring the company along these lines himself, as a better and more creative alternative to the terrifying legal lottery that he appears to have chosen. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://www.yahoo.com.au/wedsite - The Wed Site - Planning a wedding? Get all the help you need. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Mon Apr 10 18:18:00 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA130878; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:18:00 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA130870 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:17:55 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 13552 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Apr 2000 08:17:53 -0000 Message-ID: <20000410081753.13551.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:17:53 EST Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:17:53 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: ICRA news releases To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all Two news releases from the Internet Content Rating Alliance (ICRA) about their development of 'an internationally acceptable online content labeling system that protects children from harmful Internet content'. One is about the opening of new offices and appointment of new staff, the second of the appointment of an Advisory Board, including one frequent poster to APPLe! Cheers David European Office Extends Internet Content Rating Association's Worldwide Reach New Senior Management to Lead Expansion http://www.icra.org/press/p5.htm Washington, D.C. and Brighton, England, April 4, 2000 -- The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA), a non-profit organization committed to developing an internationally acceptable online content labeling system that protects children from harmful Internet content, today announced that it has established a presence in Europe, opening a new European headquarters outside of London in Brighton, England. In addition, ICRA announced that it has appointed Ola-Krstian Hoff as director of ICRA Europe and Ken Handley as ICRA's technical director "Prior to arriving at ICRA, Ola-Kristian Hoff worked for DG Information Society of the European Union. A native Norwegian, Hoff also spent eight years at the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, where he held a number of positions, including assistant director general of the Strategic Unit, Civil Department. Hoff received a law degree from the University of Oslo and has specialized in law related to the Information Society. He takes the place of David Kerr, chief executive of the Internet Watch Foundation and former director of ICRA Europe, who recently stepped down from this position. Kerr has been named ICRA's honorary secretary. In addition, ICRA has named a new technical director, Ken Handley, a 10-year veteran of British Telecom (BT). While at BT, Handley held a variety of technical and development positions, most recently he was responsible for delivering ISP solutions that work with a variety of platforms, configurations and international suppliers. "By opening our Brighton office, ICRA truly becomes an international organization," said Stephen Balkam, executive director of ICRA. "Hoff and Handley will play key roles in helping to build this office and establish ICRA's presence in the European community." Formed in May 1999, ICRA was created to develop an internationally acceptable online content labeling system. The new global labeling system will be based on the RSACi content rating system that is already embedded in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and has rated more than 120,000 Web sites. Formed with the backing of some of the world's best known Internet and communications companies, ICRA's founding members include, AOL, Bell Canada, Bertelsmann Foundation, British Telecom (BT), Cable & Wireless, Demon Internet (UK), Deutsche Telekom Online Service, Electronic Network Consortium, EuroISPA, IBM, Internet Watch Foundation, Microsoft, Novell, Software & Information Industry Association, and UUNet. About ICRA ICRA is an international non-profit organization, incorporated in the UK as a company limited by guarantee, with charitable purposes. ICRA's mission is to develop, implement and manage an internationally acceptable voluntary self-rating system which provides Internet users world wide with the choice to limit access to content they consider harmful, especially to children. ICRA has received the RSAC assets including the RSACi system that provides consumers with information about the level of nudity, sex, language, and violence in Web sites. To date, more than 130,000 Web sites have rated with the RSACi system, including a great number of the top 100 sites which account for 80% of the web's traffic. Contact: Jennifer Riggle Porter Novelli Convergence Group -- ICRA +1 757-451-3665 jennifer.riggle@pnicg.com ========================= Committee to Help Revise International Filtering and Labeling System to Protect Children from Harmful Internet Content Internet Content Rating Association Establishes Worldwide Advisory Board http://www.icra.org/press/p6.htm Washington, D.C. and Brighton, England, April 4, 2000 -- The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) today announced that it has appointed a new advisory board that will assist the organization in revising its international filtering and labeling system that allows adults to restrict children's access to harmful Internet content. The board includes educators, policy experts and media professionals from eight different countries. New advisory board members include: Francisco Martin Abreu, founder, EDUNET (Spain) Izumi Aizu, co-founder and principal of Asia Network Research (Japan/Mayalsia) Dr. Peng Hwa Ang, vice dean for the School of Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Jack Balkin, professor and founder/director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (United States) Jerry Berman, co-founder and executive director for the Center For Democracy & Technology (United States) Cornelius Crans, director of the Netherlands Board of Film Classification (Netherlands) Al MacKay, general manager for the Canadian Public Affairs Channel (Canada) Nana Makaula, CEO of the South African Film and Publication Board Dr. Dianne Martin, computer science program director for the Division of Undergraduate Education for the National Science Foundation and a professor at George Washington University (United States) Kenji Naemura, professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance and faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University (Japan) Jean Armour Polly, author of The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages (United States) Bruce Rigby, acting assistant general manager of business systems and systems support for the Department of Education, Employment and Training in the State of Victoria (Australia) Nigel Williams, founder and director of Childnet International (United Kingdom) "This is an exciting time for ICRA, as we move forward to create a truly international filtering and rating system that meets the individual culture and language needs of different countries," said Stephen Balkam, executive director of ICRA. "Our new advisory board brings together distinguished people from many countries to assist us as we as we embark upon this task." Formed in May 1999, ICRA was created to develop an internationally acceptable online content labeling system. The new global labeling system will be based on the RSACi content rating system that is already embedded in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and has rated more than 130,000 Web sites. Formed with the backing of some of the world's best known Internet and communications companies, ICRA's founding members include, AOL, Bell Canada, Bertelsmann Foundation, British Telecom (BT), Cable & Wireless, Demon Internet (UK), Deutsche Telekom Online Service, Electronic Network Consortium, EuroISPA, IBM, Internet Watch Foundation, Microsoft, Novell, Software & Information Industry Association, and UUNet. For further information on the members of the Advisory Board, please click here. About ICRA ICRA is an international non-profit organization, incorporated in the UK as a company limited by guarantee, with charitable purposes. ICRA's mission is to develop, implement and manage an internationally acceptable voluntary self-rating system which provides Internet users world wide with the choice to limit access to content they consider harmful, especially to children. ICRA has received the RSAC assets including the RSACi system that provides consumers with information about the level of nudity, sex, language, and violence in Web sites. To date, more than 130,000 Web sites have rated with the RSACi system, including a great number of the top 100 sites which account for 80% of the web's traffic. For more information on ICRA and the advisory board, visit www.icra.org. Contact: Jennifer Riggle Porter Novelli Convergence Group -- ICRA +1 757-451-3665 jennifer.riggle@pnicg.com _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Mon Apr 10 18:23:18 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA66062; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:23:17 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA66042 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:23:13 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 13933 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Apr 2000 08:23:04 -0000 Message-ID: <20000410082304.13932.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:23:04 EST Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:23:04 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Irish Times - Minister warns Internet firms on child porn To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello all A story from The Irish Times about the Minister of State for Children wanting ISPs to do more to combat child pornography. Cheers David Minister warns Internet firms on child porn --------------- By Padraig O'Morain, Social Affairs Correspondent http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/0315/hom24.htm Ireland's Internet providers have been told by the Minister of State for Children that they must do more to combat child pornography. Ms Mary Hanafin was commenting on the failure by Internet providers to promote their own self-regulation initiative on child pornography on the home pages of their Websites. The issue was raised at last week's first meeting of the Internet Advisory Board, chaired by the former Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Eamonn Barnes. Last November, the Internet Service Providers' Association of Ireland launched a "hotline" at www.hotline.ie to which the public could report sites containing child pornography. The hotline is seen as self-regulation by the industry and has the approval of the Minister for Justice, Mr O'Donoghue, who launched it. Earlier this week, however, The Irish Times was unable to find any reference to the hotline on the front pages of the main Irish Internet service providers (ISPs) which link consumers to the World Wide Web. Mr Cormac Callanan, who runs the hotline, said: "The ISPs who are members of the association have agreed to put links from their Websites to the www.hotline site. Several of the ISPs have indicated to me that they are in the process of redesigning their home page and intend that it will be there when the redesign is complete." But Ms Hanafin said the hotline "should be actively promoted immediately by the ISPs". The industry, she said, "needs to recognise that there is a negative and dangerous side to the Internet". Mr Callanan said that while ISPs are committed to publishing the links, they may not appear on the front page in all cases. He said the Internet Advisory Board had made it clear that it wanted the hotline to be "visible and available". "I would very strongly endorse that," he said. "The one concern I have is the refusal of the Government to offer any ongoing funding for the operation of the hotline and I feel it is not reasonable to expect the hotline to be completely funded from the Internet service providers since few . . . are making profits," he said. "The scale of operation of the www.hotline and the range of services which can be provided are necessarily directly related to the availability of funds." But, said Ms Hanafin: "The ISPs benefit most from public use of the Internet and, therefore, have a particular responsibility to react against child pornography." The ISPs whose Websites were checked by The Irish Times were: Indigo, Ireland On-Line, EircomNet, EsatClear, Club Internet and Oceanfree. Mr Callanan says the hotline is getting only a trickle of calls. He attributed this to two factors: a low level of activity in the area of child pornography in Ireland and insufficient promotion of the hotline. But he is confident that it has a future. "As director of the www.hotline, I have had many meetings with the Garda i, ISPs, the Data Protection Commissioner, and educational initiatives to promote the objectives of the www.hotline," he said. "Everyone has been encouraging and supportive." The functions of the Internet Advisory Board are to monitor progress on self-regulation, including the hotline, and to encourage the adoption of codes of practice. Its members include representatives of the industry, the Garda, the Film Censor's Office, the child studies unit of NUI Cork, and Barnardos. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Mon Apr 10 18:29:18 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA66986; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:29:18 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA66977 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:29:14 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 14368 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Apr 2000 08:29:12 -0000 Message-ID: <20000410082912.14367.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:29:12 EST Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:29:12 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: The Australian - China tightens grip on free speech To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello all... again A story from Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper regarding free speech in China. Cheers David China tightens grip on free speech By China correspondent LYNNE O'DONNELL in Beijing 10apr00 http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,550457%255E401,00.html THE Chinese Government is ratcheting up controls on what intellectuals and newspapers can think and say. A new push to clamp down on the spiritual pollution that the communist leadership feels is seeping in from the West has seen several academics lose their jobs after outspoken calls for reform. At least one newspaper editor has lost his job and another publication was closed down temporarily. The purge follows warnings by President Jiang Zemin against "bourgeois liberalism", a Communist Party catch-all for modern ideas, and an editorial in a party newspaper proclaiming "Marxism is the leading ideology at higher institutions". "Political persecution is mainly happening at state-run work units and institutions and is aimed at taking away the economic livelihood of people advocating liberalism," said He Depu, who was dismissed last month from the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences because of his association with the banned Chinese Democratic Party. The latest anti-Western campaign – which comes amid a worsening economic outlook and endemic official corruption – signals increased jitters in a leadership unable to stem the flow of unofficial information over the Internet. The crackdown also follows a February riot by 20,000 miners in a town 400km north-east of Beijing in which police and soldiers fought pitched battles with workers protesting over reforms at their state-owned mine. The Communist Party's propaganda department, which controls the media, has also ordered the sacking of Wang Yan, editor and founder of two popular publications – Beijing's Jingping Consumer Guide and the national weekly China Business – that have flourished since reforms were launched in the late 1970s. Mr Wang set up the papers with less than 100,000 yuan ($20,000) of his own money and has built a business worth 500 million yuan. He was accused of breaching regulations on non-state investment in newspapers, but his publications' incisive reporting of economic issues may have played a role in his removal as the Government cracks down on critical news coverage. Such was the case with the Jiangnan Times, a daily in Nanjing which was closed down for three days last week after reporting on the murders of the representative of DaimlerChrysler and his wife and two children. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! 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Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Apr 12 17:22:51 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA77508; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:22:50 +1000 (EST) Received: from smtp8.dti.ne.jp (smtp8.dti.ne.jp [202.216.228.43]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA77496 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:22:46 +1000 (EST) Received: from martyn (dns1.idg.co.jp [210.196.141.2]) by smtp8.dti.ne.jp (8.9.3/3.7W) with ESMTP id QAA00915 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:22:42 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <00c701bfa450$1c6ce220$cb00a8c0@idg.co.jp> From: "Martyn Williams" To: Subject: Doubts cast on getting ahead in information-technology age Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:24:14 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Editorial from the Asahi Evening News http://www.asahi.com/english/asahi/0411/asahi041112.html Doubts cast on getting ahead in information-technology age There is the danger that with the gap widening between the `info haves' and the `info have-nots,' an alienated class could emerge. April 11, 2000 The first ``education summit,'' a gathering of Cabinet ministers in charge of education from leading industrialized countries, was held recently in Tokyo and Okinawa. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Apr 12 22:04:16 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA103368; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:04:15 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA103353 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:04:05 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 9882 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Apr 2000 12:04:01 -0000 Message-ID: <20000412120401.9881.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:04:01 EST Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:04:01 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Silicon - E-minister asks for industry advice on online trade laws To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk E-minister asks for industry advice on online trade laws http://www.silicon.com/a36907 UK e-minister Patricia Hewitt is today expected to call for industry consultation over the European Union's controversial plans for online trading laws. At the centre of the debate is whether disputes over materials bought on the Internet should be settled in the consumer's country of origin or in that of the merchant. The Brussels Convention, originally adopted in 1968, gives customers the right to sue in their own country. But this is unpopular with many businesses, which claim that complying with different laws, languages and procedures in every country would be difficult and expensive. The EU is currently proposing to transform the Convention into legislation. However, because of the Amsterdam Treaty, the law will not apply to Denmark, Ireland and the UK, unless they decide to opt in. DTI minister Hewitt is thought to favour arbitration rather than legislation and supports the idea of a European 'ombudsman' for the Internet to adjudicate each case on an individual basis. However, she is now opening up the debate and asking for views from UK industry. Nick Lockett, senior associate at law firm Sidley & Austin, welcomed the DTI's move to consult the industry. "A consultation period is right. The government does need input on this. There are gaps in the jurisdiction and it's vital we get the confidence of consumers," he said. Lockett added that the EU must be wary of creating 'server havens' which attract companies because of their liberal legislation and leave other countries without investment. According to Lockett, a central ombudsman, or a dispute resolution centre, would be difficult to create - but if set up properly the idea could be successful. "It depends how you model it," he said. "I think its going to be quite lucrative area for law firms and qualified individuals to act as adjudicators." The consultation will last six weeks. If you'd like to have you say email your views to editorial@silicon.com. For related news, see: 'Online trade law talks break down' www.silicon.com/a36684 'EU looks for way to escape 'damaging' ecommerce law' www.silicon.com/a35279 'MEP lobbies EU to scrap e-trading laws' www.silicon.com/a34991 'UK government urged to support changes to ecommerce law' www.silicon.com/a32739 The DTI's consultation paper and draft Regulatory Impact Assessment is available at: www2.broadway.co.uk/cacp/ca/ecommerce.htm For more information, see: www.dti.gov.uk ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 662 871 503 _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 14 03:27:08 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA107807; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 03:27:07 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA107804 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 03:27:05 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 15301 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Apr 2000 17:27:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20000413172702.15300.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 03:27:02 EST Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 03:27:02 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: The Australian - India goes dotty over Net gains To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi Applers A story on the growth of the Net in India from The Australian newspaper. Cheers David India goes dotty over Net gains By UTTARA CHOUDHURY 13apr00 http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,563314%255E401,00.html INDIAN entrepreneurs have embraced the Internet with a fervour that has eclipsed more developed nations in the Asia-Pacific region. The signs of change are everywhere, with billboards bearing Web addresses mushrooming across the country. According to Dewang Mehta, the chief of India's 520-member National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), there were nearly 500 Internet-related start-ups in 1999. "Now there are more than two dot com firms being launched every day," Mr Mehta said. "The cities of Bangalore, Hyderabad, Bombay and Delhi may be the epicentre of the Internet boom but it has now spread to the whole country." Undeterred by an inadequate bandwidth and the fact there are only 600,000 Internet subscribers in India, local venture capitalists have loosened their purse strings to fund firms. The Indian Venture Capital Association estimates that $500 million was invested in start-ups in 1999. Mr Mehta said countries such as the US, Australia and Britain also would help Indian start-ups get the venture capital they required. "In the next 18 months we expect $3 billion worth of overseas venture capital funds to flow into the Indian IT sector," Mr Mehta said. Some of the funds already have started trickling in. Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer last month created a three-way venture capital fund worth $US250 million ($419 million) to invest in Indian infotech companies. Sabeer Bhatia, the Indian-born founder of Hotmail, says these are heady days for the Internet, but cautions that unique start-up ideas are not enough. They also have to work. "People get crazy over uniqueness. Some start-ups come up with esoteric ideas which will never work," he said in California. In India, millions of youngsters hero-worship Mr Bhatia and hope one day to emulate him. "All it really took was a couple of people who were successful. At least that was what inspired me to take the plunge," said Delhi-based Vibodh Vedyanathan, 28, who is creating his own firm to provide Internet solutions. Former IT journalist Osama Manzar who founded technology services firm 4cplus.com says that as the Internet gains speed, more talented people will spy opportunities to join or start small companies. "Media has always attracted people and the Internet is perhaps the most creative, cost-effective, and liberating medium we have seen to date," he said. "The Internet does not erect entry barriers related to age, experience or money. That is why Indian youngsters feel the Internet will give them an early break in life. There are enough Indian dot com success stories to inspire them." N.K. Goyal, the president of India's leading telecom provider Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd (HFCL), said Internet usage would grow exponentially. "India is expected to be the fastest growing Internet market in Asia," he said. According to an HFCL survey, the number of Internet users in India will explode to 2 million by the end of 2000. Internet service providers also are pulling out all the stops to expand the subscriber base. "We will give away set-tops with every purchase of 500 hours of Net time," said an official at state-run Vidsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd, which is both an ISP and overseas telecom operator. Television and cable networks hold the key to the faster, wider and cheaper user access needed to sustain India's dot com boom, says Bhupendra Mathur, of the Indian Market Research Bureau. "The conventional route of Internet through PCs and over the phone suffers from limitations in both telephone and PC penetration," he said. "Television and cable will eliminate the limitations in Internet access posed by limited telephone lines, as well as take care of rising costs in telephone usage." Nasscom estimates India's e-commerce transactions for the year ending March 31, 1999, at about 1.4 billion rupees ($55 million). Analysts say India could be generating 100 billion rupees worth of business on the Net by 2002. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 14 17:23:28 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA137040; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:23:27 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA137037 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:23:15 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 6473 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Apr 2000 07:23:10 -0000 Message-ID: <20000414072310.6472.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:23:10 EST Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:23:10 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: NYS Internet Porn Law Upheld To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all More on porn, the courts and the US. Cheers David NYS Internet Porn Law Upheld BY JOHN CAHER New York Law Journal Wednesday, April 12, 2000 ALBANY — Drawing a sharp distinction between New York's Internet pornography law and the fatally flawed federal Communications Decency Act, the Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the constitutionality of the state statute. The Court agreed unanimously that the New York law survives constitutional scrutiny largely because, unlike the stricken federal statute, it is directed not only at the transmission of certain communications, but also the act of luring a child into sex. "An invitation or enticement is distinguishable from pure speech," Judge Richard C. Wesley wrote for the Court in People v. Foley, 17. Judge Wesley said the statute, describes "acts of communication" as opposed to content and characterized the law as a "preemptive strike against sexual abuse of children by creating criminal liability for conduct directed toward the ultimate acts of abuse." He said the state law, codified at §235.22 of the Penal Law, is sufficiently narrow and specific in its scope to avoid the overbreadth problems of a similar federal law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997 (Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 US 844). The state law, enacted to combat predatory pedophile behavior over the Internet, was signed by Governor Pataki in 1996. People v. Foley arises from one of the first prosecutions under the Internet pornography law. Thomas R. Foley Sr., a 51-year-old radio engineer from the Buffalo area, became the target of an investigation after a State Trooper in Utica assigned to the Computer Crime Unit entered an Internet chat room called "KidsofFamilySex," identified himself as "Aimee" and began a discussion with the defendant. "Aimee" described herself to Mr. Foley, who was using the screen name "JustMee" as a 15-year-old girl who had sex with her father. "Aimee" and "JustMee" communicated on several occasions, with their on-line discussions centering around sex. "JustMee" transmitted pictures to "Aimee" of minors engaging in sexual acts and arranged a liaison over Thanksgiving weekend of 1996. During a subsequent conversation, State Police executed a no-knock search warrant at Mr. Foley's Grand Island residence and found him typing at his computer. Mr. Foley was arrested, indicted and ultimately convicted of two counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child and two counts of attempted first-degree disseminating indecent material to minors. The latter charge, based on the 1996 law, required the prosecution to prove that Mr. Foley used a computer to transmit pornography to a minor and attempted to use that communication to lure "Aimee" into sexual activity. On appeal, the defendant claimed the law amounts to a "content-based" restriction on free speech and that it violates both the First Amendment and the Commerce Clause. He also argued that the law is unconstitutionally vague and overly broad. Like the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, the Court of Appeals rejected all of Mr. Foley's claims. The Court of Appeals said the conduct prohibited by the statute does "not merit First Amendment protection" and is "of the sort that deserves no 'economic' protection" of the sort safeguarded by the Commerce Clause. Further, the Court said Penal Law Section 235.22 clearly targets communicative conduct or acts rather than content by outlawing "the intentional dissemination of this type of material to a minor in conjunction with the sender's enticement or invitation to the child to engage in sexual activity." Governor Pataki at a press conference yesterday morning applauded the Court's decision and said that the law is needed to protect children from Internet predators. No Foregone Conclusion The outcome, however, was far from a foregone conclusion, since the U.S. Supreme Court had shot down the federal version of the statute, and at least one New York judge, Kings County Supreme Court Justice Carolyn E. Demarest, had held §235.22 to be an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment (People v. Barrows, 177 Misc2d 712). "The area of law pertaining to the intersection of pornography and the Internet and criminal enforcement has been fraught with constitutional challenges and legislative uncertainty," Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said in an interview yesterday. "This is not an area where the results have been absolutely predictable or where legislative enactments have withstood prior challenge." Mr. Spitzer said that yesterday's ruling marked "a critical step in reinforcing our authority." Arguing at the Court of Appeals were Roger W. Wilcox, of Lipsitz Green Fahringer Roll Salisbury & Cambria in Buffalo, for Mr. Foley and Oneida County District Attorney Michael A. Arcuri for the prosecution. Assistant Attorney General Robin A. Forshaw filed as an intervenor. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Apr 19 01:41:46 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA139053; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:41:45 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA139049 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:41:41 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 22271 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Apr 2000 15:41:39 -0000 Message-ID: <20000418154139.22270.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:41:39 EST Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:41:39 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Child pornography on the Internet (European Parliament) To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all For all those who follow developments in the area of child pornography on the Internet, some information on what is happening in the EU. Some awfully long URLs, but for those interested, it may be worthwhile. Cheers David Child pornography on the Internet (European Parliament) Plenary session 11 April (http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/omnsapir.so/pv2?PRG=CALDOC&FILE=000411&LANGUE=EN&TPV=PROV&SDOCTA=4&TXTLST=1&Type_Doc=PROPOSAL&POS=1), on basis of Kirkhope Report A5-0090/00. Proposed amendments to the Initiative of the Republic of Austria (http://www.qlinks.net/comdocs/AUinitiativeen.pdf) with a view to adopting a Council Decision to combat child pornography on the Internet. See http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/oeil/oeil_ViewDNL.ProcedureView?lang=2&procid=3852 for a legislative history. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 662 871 503 _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Apr 19 19:04:08 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA142625; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 19:04:07 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA142620 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 19:04:00 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 11428 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Apr 2000 09:03:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20000419090357.11427.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 19:03:57 EST Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 19:03:57 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: ABA news release - Internet content complaints scheme - the first 3 months To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A news release from my old employers, the ABA, about how much Internet content they have acted upon in the first 3 months they have been taking complaints about Internet content. Cheers David NR 27/2000 19 April 2000 Internet content complaints scheme - the first 3 months http://www.aba.gov.au/about/public_relations/newrel_2000/27nr2000.htm In the first three months of Internet content complaint investigation, the Australian Broadcasting Authority issued final take-down notices for 31 items of Australian-hosted content, referred 45 items of content to the makers of filtering software products and referred 7 items of content to law enforcement agencies. "The establishment of the ABA’s online-hotline for Internet content complaints means that Internet users in Australia can now have their complaints about offensive material investigated. The ABA is working with the Internet industry and the community advisory body NetAlert to help ensure that people’s use of the Internet is a positive experience and that children, in particular, are protected from material that is unsuitable for them," said Professor David Flint, ABA Chairman. "Nevertheless, parents and others responsible for the care and supervision of children should maintain vigilance in relation to the use of the Internet by children. The ABA’s role complements and supplements that of parents, teachers and service providers." The ABA's online-hotline for Internet content complaints commenced operation on 1 January 2000. As at 31 March 2000, investigations into 99 of the 124 complaints received by the ABA had been finalised and investigations into 23 complaints were underway. Two complaints were not investigated as the ABA was of the view that they were not made in good faith. Thirty-five investigations located items of prohibited or potentially prohibited content and the ABA took action accordingly. For prohibited or potentially prohibited content hosted in Australia, the ABA issues take-down notices to the content host, while for such content hosted outside Australia, the ABA refers the material to the makers of approved filtering software products and, where appropriate, refers the content to law enforcement agencies. The referral of content to the makers of approved filtering software products is provided for in industry codes of practice developed by the Internet Industry Association (IIA). The codes are a central component of the co-regulatory scheme and provide certainty for industry participants as to their obligations under the scheme, as well as informing users of what they can expect from their providers. "The ABA’s functions under the scheme include monitoring the operation of industry codes of practice and conducting community education and research, as well as undertaking international liaison. These functions are critical to the overall success of the co-regulatory scheme and the ABA is pursuing initiatives in each of these areas," said Professor Flint. BACKGROUNDER Members of the public may complain to the ABA about Internet content that is, or may be, prohibited by law. The online content legislation defines Internet content as stored information that is accessed over an Internet carriage service, including material on the World Wide Web, postings on newsgroups and bulletin boards, and other files that can be downloaded from an archive or library. Under the legislation, the definition of Internet content does not include ordinary email or information that is accessed in real time without being previously stored, such as chat services and voice over the Internet. The legislation sets out different procedures for dealing with prohibited or potentially prohibited content hosted in Australia and such content hosted outside Australia. If the content is likely to be classified RC or X and the content is hosted in Australia, the ABA issues an interim take-down notice to the content host, pending classification of the content by the Classification Board. Where the Classification Board confirms that the content is prohibited, a final take-down notice is issued. In relation to content likely to be classified R (hosted in Australia and not subject to an adult verification mechanism), the process is slightly different in that an interim take-down notice is not issued. Rather the content host is advised of the decision to ask the Classification Board for a classification. This gives the host the opportunity, in conjunction with the content provider, to put in place an adult verification mechanism that meets minimum requirements set by the ABA. Where this occurs, a take-down notice would not be issued. In response to complaints about content hosted outside of Australia, where the ABA is satisfied that the content is likely to be classified RC or X, the ABA refers the content to the makers of ‘approved’ filtering software in accordance with provisions in the Internet Industry Association (IIA) codes of practice. The makers of the filtering software products update their products as appropriate so that those users with one of the products installed and activated, will have that content filtered from their future Internet access. Internet service providers (ISPs) play their part by providing filtering software to their users in accordance with the IIA codes. Approved filtering software products include client-side filter products and filtered Internet services. The IIA codes list 16 approved filters that were included following qualitative assessment by the CSIRO. While it is the responsibility of ISPs to provide a filter to their users, it is the responsibility of users to install, activate and regularly update the product. Parents and carers of children who wish to manage their children’s access to Internet content have an important role to play in this regard. Other provisions in the codes deal with a range of customer advice and content management issues. These include procedures for ensuring online accounts are not provided to children without the consent of a parent or responsible adult, for creating awareness about the way to make a complaint about Internet content, and for informing producers of Internet content of their legal responsibilities in relation to that content. In addition to the above procedures for dealing with prohibited or potentially prohibited content, it is important to note that in particularly serious cases, eg. investigations that locate child pornography, the appropriate law enforcement agency is notified at the earliest possible opportunity. Complaints status The complaint investigation component of the Government’s co-regulatory scheme for Internet content commenced operation on 1 January 2000. As at the end of the third month of operation (c.o.b. 31 March 2000), the ABA had received 124 formal complaints. Investigations into 71 of the 124 complaints had been completed. A summary of the outcome of these investigations is provided below. A further 28 had been terminated, as the ABA did not have sufficient information to conclude the investigation. Two complaints were not investigated as the ABA concluded that they were not made in good faith. Investigations into the remaining 23 complaints were underway as at 31 March 2000. Outcome of investigations Table 1 provides a summary of the outcome of completed investigations. Half the investigations resulted in the location of prohibited or potential prohibited content, while the other half did not. Most of the investigations that resulted in the ‘not prohibited’ finding were in relation to content hosted in Australia. In total, 36 of the investigations were in relation to Australian-hosted content, while 35 were in relation to content hosted outside Australia. All but two of the investigations involved WWW content. The two that did not were complaints about newsgroup articles. Table 1: Outcome of Completed Investigations Australia Outside Aus Total Not Prohibited or Potentially Prohibited Content 27 9 36 Prohibited or Potentially Prohibited Content 9 26 35 Total 36 35 71 Action arising from completed investigations As indicated in Table 2, action arising from the 71 completed investigations included: 23 items of Australian-hosted content subject to final take-down notices as a result of RC (refused classification) classification by the Classification Board (predominantly content of a sexual nature with ‘underage connotations’); 3 items subject to final take-down notices as a result of X classification by the Classification Board; 5 items subject to final take-down notices as a result of R classification in combination with the lack of a restricted access system; 45 items of content hosted outside Australia referred to the makers of approved filters; and 7 items of content referred to appropriate law enforcement agencies. Table 2: Action Arising from Completed Investigations Australian Hosted Items* R Classified (restricted access system not implemented – final take-down notice issued) 5 X Classified (final take-down notice issued) 3 RC Classified (final take-down notice issued) 23 Hosted Outside Australia Items* Prohibited or Potential Prohibited (X) – referred to makers of approved filters 10 Prohibited or Potential Prohibited (RC) – referred to makers of approved filters # 35 Referral to Police 7 * Some items were the subject of more than one complaint while some complaints resulted in the investigation of a number of items. # 17 of these items were originally Australian-hosted content subject to final take-down notices that subsequently moved to a content host outside Australia. In terms of country of origin of prohibited/potential prohibited content hosted outside Australia, the majority was hosted in the USA (33 items). The other countries were Canada, Denmark, Finland, Japan, Mexico and Russia. How to make a complaint In addition to the 124 complaints described above, the ABA received a number of other ‘complaints’ of an informal nature. These included ‘complaints’ that did not contain complainant details or provided complainant details that were obviously false in nature, and ‘complaints’ that did not provide the details required under the legislation. To help ensure that the ABA can investigate a complaint, complainants must set out: their name and contact details; the Internet address of the Internet content and any other details required to access it; a description of the Internet content; and the reason for thinking that the Internet content is, or may be, prohibited content. Complaints about Internet content must be in writing and the ABA has made an online complaints form available at its web site to assist members of the community to lodge their complaint: http://www.aba.gov.au/what/online/complaints.htm Complaints can also be made by post, fax or email. Internet users wishing to complain can phone the ABA for information on how to lodge a complaint using the ABA’s toll free number 1800 22 6667. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 21 17:26:51 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA81214; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:26:50 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA137010 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:26:42 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 16788 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Apr 2000 07:26:39 -0000 Message-ID: <20000421072639.16787.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:26:39 EST Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:26:39 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: CNET - The AOLisation of America To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A story from CNET on how AOL is taking over America! Happy Easter Cheers David The Online Giant Has Homogenized the Net. What's Next? By Ken Feinstein (4/19/00) While all eyes have been on the Nasdaq's ups and downs and Microsoft's legal troubles, America Online has been not so quietly taking over the world. Aiming to control everything you watch, read, and listen to, online and off, this titan is already wired into the households of 23 million Americans (about 20 percent of the surfing population). And, thanks to the merger with Time Warner, it is set to control 13 million more. Don't get us wrong: building an empire is not necessarily a bad thing. AOL's widely available, easy-to-use Internet service has helped millions of new Netizens get online. But a closer look at AOL's content, services, and business practices leads us to wonder if AOL's dominance will further open the Web, or just turn it into another homogenized, lifeless medium. AOL's Modus Operandi: • AOL's proprietary browsers and email clients can keep users from venturing off the service. • The company has censored chat rooms and user home pages. • AOL has been accused repeatedly of anticompetitive and strong-arm business practices. • Through a string of media, entertainment, and Internet mergers and acquisitions, the company has built a Web empire of near-Microsoftian proportions. And it's not just the Web that's in danger of being sanitized. We have to wonder what will happen to Time Warner's many radio, television, and print media holdings under AOL's influence. So get ready, America. The postman always rings twice, and, whether you like it or not, you've got mail. (The following stories are available in Links from this story at http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-1544320-7-1708289.html) The Rise of a Web Giant How America Online became the world's number one ISP. The AOL Way or No Way How AOL's power affects its customers and the Internet community at large. Beyond Microsoft AOL will eventually dominate the desktop--and the media. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 21 17:28:44 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA137024; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:28:43 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA137021 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:28:40 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 17056 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Apr 2000 07:28:32 -0000 Message-ID: <20000421072832.17055.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:28:32 EST Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:28:32 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Wired - China Telecom Monopoly Ends To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A story from Wired on China's telecom monopoly ending. Cheers David China Telecom Monopoly Ends Reuters 7:00 a.m. Apr. 20, 2000 PDT http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,35797,00.html BEIJING -- China announced on Thursday it had officially finished restructuring the state phone giant China Telecom -- a symbolic triumph for competition in one of the country's most guarded and crucial sectors. Two separate companies have emerged from the dust of the break-up. China Telecommunications (Group) Co., with registered capital of 220 billion yuan ($26.57 billion), controls the former monopoly's fixed line networks. China Mobile Telecommunications (Group) Co., with capital of 51.8 billion yuan, has inherited cellular networks across the nation with roughly 40 million subscribers. The companies have actually been functioning separately since the middle of last year. But Thursday's ribbon-cutting marks a victory for reformists who saw the break-up of the monopoly as a major step towards forklifting the sector into a brave new world of global competition. Another key component of the breakup included China Telecom handing its paging business to a budding state-owned competitor, China United Telecommunications Corp, which is planning a $4-5 billion stock listing in Hong Kong and New York in June. Most significant has been the effort, still unfinished, to convert the powerful Ministry of Information Industry from a majority shareholder in China Telecom into an impartial regulator for the whole industry. Ministry of Information Industry Minister Wu Jichuan, long seen as an opponent of the industry revamp, heralded the establishment of the two companies on Thursday. "It will surely play an active role in accelerating telecommunications development, promoting an information-oriented national economy, and raising the competitiveness of China's information industry in the international market," he said. Analysts said competition in the sector was far ahead of where it was when the restructuring began more than a year ago. But China Telecom remained virtually unthreatened in local fixed line phone service. "It's pretty obvious to the authorities that competition is the best way to increase telecoms penetration in China," said Eric Ikauniks, China telecoms analyst at Jardine Fleming in Hong Kong. But "competition on the last mile is non-existent," he said. In the mobile phone sector only China Unicom has a license to compete with China Telecom. A smaller company, Century Mobile Communications Corp -- which is part owned by the military -- also provides mobile service. Combined, China Unicom and Century Mobile have only about 12 percent of the national market. "Competition is limited right now, there's definitely room for a third or a fourth player in that market," Ikauniks said. Competition is hottest between companies providing data services over high-speed communications backbones. Besides China Telecom and China Unicom, China Network Communications Corp (China Netcom) and Ji Tong Communications Corp are battling for pieces of that business. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 21 17:32:02 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA137058; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:32:01 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA137054 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:31:58 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 17425 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Apr 2000 07:31:56 -0000 Message-ID: <20000421073156.17424.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:31:56 EST Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:31:56 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Wired - Why Girls Don't Compute To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello all... again This time a story on why women, in general as I know there are quite a few women on this list, don't use computers as much as men. The actual story includes links to the report. Cheers David This time Why Girls Don't Compute by Kendra Mayfield 3:00 a.m. Apr. 20, 2000 PDT http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35654,00.html "Math is hard," a talking Barbie doll told a generation of girls who grew up thinking they should be afraid of math and science. Sadly, some of the Barbie mentality continues. A new study claims the current generation of girls lack technical skills and are being shut out from opportunities to enter high-paying, technology-related jobs because the educational system is keeping them from achieving equality. Girls aren't afraid of technology, they're turned off by boring video games, dull programming classes, and uninspiring career options, according to a new report by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation (AAUW). "They are not so much phobic, but are disenchanted," said Pamela Haage, the AAUW's director of research. The report, "Tech Savvy: Educating Girls in the New Computer Age," culminates a two-year study analyzing previous research, teacher survey responses, and focus groups of middle school and high school students. The study suggests that educators must change the way that they teach to attract girls to technology at an early age. Instead of focusing on what's wrong with girls who dislike computing, researchers used their responses to examine what might be wrong with computer culture. "We looked at the picture they presented and there wasn't a whole lot to like," said Sherry Turkle, a sociology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who co-chaired the commission that wrote the report. Statistics clearly indicate that women are under-represented in technology. For example, girls represent 17 percent of Computer Science AP test takers. Women make up only 20 percent of information-technology professionals, and receive fewer than 28 percent of computer science degrees -- a number that is actually declining. With the rise of technology-related jobs in the new economy, experts fear girls who lack computing skills might be left behind. "We've got to encourage more women to get into the computer sciences," said Denise Gurer, co-chair of the Association of Computing Machinery's Committee on Women In Computing. "We've got to get more of a critical mass." "It's more imperative that everybody, particularly girls who are underrepresented, have computer fluency," AAUW's Haage said. The girls in the study had misconceptions of the types of careers that computer fluency would lead to, clinging to stereotypes of antisocial code-crunching programmers. "Girls are getting a distorted view of the intellectual power of what the computer can do," Turkle said. "It doesn't have to do with the computer. It has to do with the cultural image of the computer." Leah Goldberg, who is now a product manager at a high-tech company in Palo Alto, California, was turned off to technology by early perceptions of computer programming as an isolated activity. "If I did have any interest in programming, it was certainly never channeled," Goldberg said. "I hit a wall pretty quickly." Even though she was exposed to programming at an early age, "It did not seem interesting because it did not appeal to my life," she said. That reticence changed when Goldberg saw the opportunities that the Internet afforded to use technology in visual and creative ways. "I saw the fun, creative, art-based things you could do with computers," Goldberg said. "Once I saw it pertained to something I was interested in there was definitely a connection." Researchers urged that improvements should begin in the classroom. Educators can encourage girls to use technology "by going against the stream of assigning girls to word-processing as a point of entry," said commission member Yasmin Kafai, an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. "There are other ways to get girls into computer culture." The report urges educators to teach girls sophisticated technology skills and to move beyond word processing and presentation tools like PowerPoint software, which Turkle calls "the Year 2000 equivalent of typing." By infusing technology across the curriculum, teachers can re-engage girls who might be disinterested in traditional computing courses. The report also found that boys are given more opportunities to master technology. Girls are also turned off to technology at an early age through computer games that are mass-marketed toward boys. Girls dislike violent video games aimed at boys and want games that are personalized and creative, where they can develop relationships with characters, Haage said. "They definitely want high-skill, not high-kill," Haage said. Committee members diverged over the topic of "pink software" targeted specifically at girls. "We don't need pink software," Haage said. "We need better software." But others think that there is room for software that goes straight to girls' interests. "Software is primarily aimed at boys. To counteract that, we desperately need software out there for girls," said the ACM's Gurer. "It's not really violence that turns girls off," Gurer said. Repetitious, boring games are more likely to turn girls off than violence, she said. Researchers also stressed educating girls to be designers, not just consumers of technology. "We need to get women involved in making and shaping the computer culture," Turkle said. Researchers agreed that educators and marketers should pay attention to girls who criticize the existing computer culture. "Girls have legitimate criticisms," Haage said. "We need to listen to what they're telling us." ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 21 17:44:24 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA82485; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:44:23 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA137125 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:44:13 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 18885 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Apr 2000 07:44:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20000421074402.18884.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:44:02 EST Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:44:02 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Wired - Kids' Privacy an Act, or Action? To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk And one more A story from Wired about the implementation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act in the USA. There aer also a number of LInks inthe original story. Cheers David Kids' Privacy an Act, or Action? by Lynn Burke 11:35 a.m. Apr. 20, 2000 PDT http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35712,00.html In a matter of hours, thousands of sites will officially be subject to one of the most far-reaching pieces of privacy regulation to hit the Internet. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act -- COPPA, as it's usually called -- goes into effect Friday. COPPA mandates that sites collecting personal information from children under age 13 must obtain parental permission first. Loren Thompson, attorney with the Federal Trade Commission's Division of Advertising Practices, said there's been more than enough time for most companies to comply. The rule was signed into law in 1998. "Most have been very conscientious and diligent about complying to the law," she said. Several kids' site companies, including Headbone.com, Surfmonkey.com, and Agirlsworld.com have issued press releases announcing their compliance. But others have decided it's just too much of a hassle to obtain parental consent for all the kids who use their site. Karen DeMars, president of online matchmaker Ecrush.com, has decided to ditch her 2,000 under-12 subscribers. "It's really a question of resources," she said. "We're a startup, and we just decided that it would be just easier not to have those kids registered." Travis Plunkett, legislative director of Consumer Federation of America, said companies have an exaggerated idea of what it takes to bring their sites into compliance with the new law. The parental consent COPPA requires is defined as a two-tiered rule. If the company is merely collecting personal information for internal purposes, email verification is sufficient. But if the company is going to sell or give the information to a third party, consent must come in fax form, mail form, a call to an 800 number, or an email with a digital signature. "It's not an onerous burden," he said. "It probably costs 50 cents a kid." Ecrush isn't alone, however. NBCi angered its pre-teen clientele in February when it decided to cancel their email accounts. "It was the surest way for us to obey the law," said NBCi spokeswoman Francis Burn. Try telling that to the kids. "I can't believe you all did that!" wrote one angry girl whose ecrush account was deactivated. "Me, and a lot of my friends had accounts with ecrush that were going great! We had it going with our crushes and a lot of guys were crushin' on us who were our lists! My friend Halley is gonna be really upset. She and her crush were getting ready to hook up through ecrush! Now she wont even get to know who her crush was!" But should a 12-year-old be meeting someone she was matched up with online anyway? Although ecrush only matches kids who have listed each other as a crush -- thereby eliminating pedophile predators looking for a match, DeMars admits her service is probably best saved for the teenagers. "If I had a 12-year-old, I probably wouldn't want them submitting personal information," DeMars said. The people who helped COPPA become a law say the rule is designed to protect kids, plain and simple. "If you're going to do business with children, there have got to be some rules for the game," said Kathryn Montgomery, president of the Center for Media Education, a privacy rights group that has been lobbying for COPPA since 1996. Without naming names, the FTC's Thompson said there were many sites that still hadn't done anything about the law. "There are some sites that really offend me," she said. "They don't require registration for chat rooms. You can just hit your back button and change your age." She said the danger of letting kids online without supervision is real. "I logged onto a chat room as an 11-year-old girl. Someone immediately asked me to talk to dirty to him. And this was my first time," she said. COPPA violators –- who will only get dinged if they specifically cater to children -- will face $11,000 per violation, the FTC says. Jason Catlett, president of online privacy advocacy group Junkbusters, is skeptical about enforcement. "If you look at the history of the FTC's enforcement actions, they have been few in number and gentle in force," he said. "I would be astonished if the FTC would ring the cash register for significant sums." While it remains to be seen how strict the FTC's enforcement will be, it will affect more and more children as they get hooked up to the Internet. Jupiter Communications says that 11.4 million children aged 12 and under used the Internet in 1999, and by 2003, that number is expected to jump to 24.3 million. And as more kids get shut out from companies who decide they are not worth the trouble, they are not likely to appreciate COPPA. "It is not fair," wrote one young user about the law. "Why in the world does it make a difference if I am 12 or 13? What's the difference?" _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Sat Apr 22 17:18:48 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA85387; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:18:46 +1000 (EST) Received: from zinc.singnet.com.sg (smtp3.singnet.com.sg [165.21.7.83]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA143727 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:18:43 +1000 (EST) Received: from laina (qtas2350.singnet.com.sg [165.21.54.180]) by zinc.singnet.com.sg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA26738 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 15:18:42 +0800 (SGT) Reply-To: From: "Laina Greene" To: Subject: Re: Wired - China Telecom Monopoly Ends Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 15:23:56 -0700 Message-ID: <000901bfaca9$72b3cde0$1301a8c0@getit.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk I am forwarding a response from Milton Mueller that did not make it through....Milton, please make sure you send messages from the email address you subscribed to APPLe with. Thanks, Laina Raveendran Greene ...... Wired's coverage of China's telecom sector is always *really* bad, and this article is no exception. The restructuring of China Telecom vertically into lines of business has been under discussion for three years now. The specific path that was chosen -- separating mobile and paging companies on a nationwide basis -- was actually the LEAST pro-competitive of the options put forward. All it does is create national monopolies in different segments. The more competitive option would have been to break up China Telecom on horizontal or regional lines, allowing the parts to compete against each other nationally. Wu Jichuan has never favored this option. --MM * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Mon Apr 24 10:30:17 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA105903; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:30:17 +1000 (EST) Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA105895 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 10:30:13 +1000 (EST) Received: from bda_vaio (sdn-ar-001dcwashP064.dialsprint.net [168.191.20.48]) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA22090 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000423203616.007c1de0@pop.cais.net> X-Sender: vir1015@pop.cais.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:36:16 -0400 To: apple@apnic.net From: Bram Dov Abramson Subject: announce: Hubs + Spokes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk hi all, Below is excerpted from a project I just finished working on. I thought it might be of interest to APPLers ... cheers Bram HUBS AND SPOKES: A TeleGeography Internet Reader What does the Internet look like? Most engineers draw it as a cloud. That shouldn't surprise anyone: in a sense, there is no Internet, only networking standards like TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol) which allow an ever-increasing number of private data networks across the world to exchange digital information. These networks and the traffic they carry give the Internet its form. That they interconnect gives the Internet its substance. But if you look inside the Internet cloud, a fairly distinct hub-and-spoke structure begins to emerge at both an operational (networking) and physical (geopolitical) level. A well-known Internet graph created at Lucent Technologies by Bill Cheswick and Hal Burch, for example, is built up from thousands and thousands of nodes (routers) and edges (links between routers), each reflecting a possible path from Cheswick and Burch's home network to the rest of the Internet. Even a casual review of these hubs and spokes can provide a rough idea of the Internet's scale and some of its major constituents (http://www.peacockmaps.com). What about the geopolitical dimensions of this hub-and-spoke model? Traditionally, the Internet's basic transmission facilities have been centered around the U.S., the hub whose backbone spokes connected the rest of the world. Some spokes were quite thick, like those linking the U.K., Canada and Japan. Others were pencil thin: Russia's and Brazil's, for example. This was no conspiracy. The topology, largely unplanned, reflected the Internet's U.S. origin; its embryonic commercial structure, including America's head start in building network backbones; its status as home to most Internet content; and waning monopoly pricing of cross-border data links outside the U.S. By 1999, this U.S.-centric structure had slowly begun to shift. Today more bandwidth links key European cities to each other than to the U.S., making western Europe the first hub to emerge from North America's shadow. Intra-regional links between Asian networks are also growing. As a result, the Internet's global hub-and-spoke structure has begun to diffuse, replicating itself within regions. In Europe, for example, single cities have begun to play the role that the U.S. once did worldwide. Yet country-by-country numbers tell only part of the story. More detailed data for metropolitan areas suggest that the emerging structure of the Internet's hub-and-spoke structure is based upon a core of meshed connectivity between world cities on coastal shores -- Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, DC; London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt; Tokyo and Seoul. The Internet's architecture is still evolving. *Hubs and Spokes*, the first publication from TeleGeography's Internet program, expands and updates our past material to help readers understand that evolution. Like our PSTN (public switched telephone network) research, our Internet work focuses on international industry structure, network topology, and traffic flow. As the Internet takes its place at the core of an emerging public network, hard questions are coming up. What shape is that network taking on -- and will those who operate it be organized horizontally, by function, or vertically, by end-to-end slice? How will those players interoperate, both technically and financially, to ensure that the hubs and spokes continue to connect? Who will govern the cloud, and what are the demand drivers causing it to expand? PRIMER Architecture: How is the global Internet structured? Not long ago, the answer seemed easy: the Internet was U.S.-centric. As regional hubbing makes geographical diversity a more pervasive network feature, Net architecture moves beyond its U.S.-domestic and global-but-still-U.S.-centric phases toward a third stage characterized by a distributed global presence. That is the theory, anyway. But a combination of regulatory and economic factors have threatened to forestall the end of the U.S.-centric phase. Where do things stand? And where are they headed? Finance: Who pays for the Internet? The answer is complicated: a typical Internet transmission may involve many different networks -- five, say, or fifteen -- and is broken up into many different packets, which may take radically different paths to get from point a to point b. That makes it hard to bill Internet communications in the way that traditional phone communications are billed. How do peering and transit models for traffic exchange fit in -- and what happens in practice? Governance: Who governs the Internet? Most Netizens would once have scoffed at the question, and probably sent unfriendly e-mails to the person posing it. But dramatic growth has transformed the Internet into both a quasi-public global infrastructure and a very big business. In doing so, its priorities have shifted toward stability and predictability. That's where governance comes in. What's up with ICANN? And how did we get there? Demand: Demand growth for IP capacity is almost impossible to state: because IP applications tend to grab the bandwidth they need -- slowing down rather than halting when less is available -- and because faster performance impacts user behavior directly, new capacity is filled readily, and the challenge for many backbone providers is simply to build as fast as possible. Keeping this challenge in mind, we look to the network's edges and why they're being populated by an increasing number of users; the on-ramps that let them get data to and from the core; and the content, devices, and interactive applications which are helping increase the volumes involved. Voice: One of the Internet's most-discussed demand drivers is voice telephony. During the last year, voice-over-IP (VoIP) players have attracted very large amounts of new capital, and the trend toward telco investments in VoIP carriers could well accelerate the long-awaited convergence between the telco and IP worlds. How does VoIP work? And where does it stand? INTERNATIONAL INTERNET BANDWIDTH Providers: A market overview and comprehensive list of more than 250 international Internet service providers (IISPs) headquartered in 85 countries provides a guide -- and direct coordinates -- for the online maps and data which will help readers size up the players. Connectivity and Exchanges: How much international Internet bandwidth goes where? A guide to international city-to-city bandwidth provides a geographical summary of the global Internet, along with a table of the top 50 international Internet hub cities worldwide. Maps help present the information visually, showing international backbone routes for the Europe, Asia/Pacific, and Americas regions. And the world's Internet exchange points -- facilities where network traffic is traded -- are indicated, with pointers to over 200 facilities in 76 countries (see http://www.telegeography.com/ix). INTERNATIONAL INTERNET INDICATORS A guide to the other metrics used to size the Internet's global growth, including country-by-country Internet user counts; the spread of different languages on the Internet; and the nature of links between sites in one country and another. Pointers to pertinent projects are provided, and a geographical twist on the tried-and-true host counts is included. Reference pages provide easy access to Internet and telephony country codes, and include a "bit primer" to match bandwidth technologies with their speeds. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Mon Apr 24 13:04:17 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA120874; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:04:16 +1000 (EST) Received: from mail3.ntu.edu.sg (mail3.ntu.edu.sg [155.69.1.91]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA120865 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:04:13 +1000 (EST) Received: by mail3.ntu.edu.sg with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:00:57 +0800 Message-ID: <1DD1B50DBE02D311909900805FA7424B014E918D@EXCHANGE5> From: "Ang Peng Hwa (Assoc Prof)" To: "'APPLe'" Subject: The Internet needs regulation--says Lawrence Lessig Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:01:01 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Folks, The following is an article by Lawrence Lessig pointing out the misapprehension of regulation and the Internet. Innovation, Regulation, and The Internet http://www.prospect.org/archives/V11-10/lessig-l.html It makes the point that I make in my class, my captive audience--that because the Internet is an innovation, it requires regulations. I do not make that point elsewhere because if arguments are to be bought and sold on the free market of ideas, this one does not get into the truck to get onto the road. Regards, Ang Peng Hwa * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Tue Apr 25 18:11:45 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA120617; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:11:44 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA120603 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:11:40 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 18021 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Apr 2000 08:11:36 -0000 Message-ID: <20000425081136.18020.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:11:36 EST Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:11:36 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: computer games and net regulation To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi all A few stories I have come across from around the place over Easter from the SMH and Wired. Cheers David >From the SMH… Violent computer games do more harm than films http://www.smh.com.au/news/0004/25/national/national06.html Playing violent video games for just a few minutes is much more harmful than watching violence on television or films, psychologists have concluded. Interactive computer games such as Doom and Mortal Combat require players to identify with the character carrying out the violence, dramatically increasing aggressive thoughts and behaviour, according to a study by Iowa State University of Science and Technology. … AOL Founder: Censor the Net? Ha! Reuters http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35854,00.html 8:25 a.m. Apr. 24, 2000 PDT HANOI -- Communist Vietnam, China, and even the U.S. government should think again if they believed they could censor the Internet, the founder of America Online said Monday. "I think Vietnam, China, and others that are trying to control the Internet -- even our own government -- have no chance," James Kimsey said in Hanoi. Kimsey, leading a group of Vietnam war veterans turned business leaders offering advice to Vietnam on how to cope with a globalized world, said the Internet was creating an unstoppable tsunami of information. … Feds Try Odd Anti-Porn Approach by Declan McCullagh http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,35800,00.html 3:00 a.m. Apr. 22, 2000 PDT WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly recruiting critics of filtering software to help it defend a controversial anti-pornography law in court. Government attorneys are asking librarians and academics who have published criticisms of the controversial filtering products to testify in an expected trial over the Child Online Protection Act. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! 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Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Apr 26 02:10:20 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA139326; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:10:18 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA139323 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:10:13 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 22882 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Apr 2000 16:10:11 -0000 Message-ID: <20000425161011.22881.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:10:11 EST Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:10:11 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: The Australian - China prefers a home-spun Net To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello! >From todays, or tomorrow's Australian newspaper, depending on when you read it. Cheers David China prefers a home-spun Net >From AFP 26apr00 http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,611361%255E401,00.html CHINA is backing a home-grown effort to fund the Internet's mainland growth and counter the flood of foreign money that has fuelled the country's largest start-ups. New laws and regulations to govern China's nascent venture capital industry are being drawn up. But foreign industry players are warning Chinese venture capital firms lack the experience and the connections to propel their investment targets to future success, especially after the battering high-tech stocks took on global stock markets last week. In China, "there is an unsophisticated understanding of how can you make money from the Internet, everybody is trying to think 'how can I get in on it?' " said Christina Ye, founding partner of Internet consulting firm Blueprint China. During the past few months, Chinese local governments and conglomerates alike have been scrambling to set up venture capital firms to cash in on the Internet boom since China last year announced the launch of a domestic second board market. China has about 200 business incubator companies, which aim to provide funding and management know-how to help technology firms with good ideas, according to a report in the China Daily last week. Tellingly though, the mainland's highest profile Internet firms, such as news portals Sina.com and Sohu.com, and Ebay look-a-like Eachnet.com, have drawn their funds and expertise from overseas firms such as Japanese IT giant Softbank, Dell Computer, Intel and California-based Vantong International. Sina.com has already listed on the US Nasdaq market and Sohu.com and Eachnet.com also hope to list overseas. "We do need to get cash to fuel future growth but we are also looking for a lot of analysis from stock market analysts, and the management checks and balances we can get from listing," Eachnet.com chief Haiyin Tan said. More analysis will be available for firms that list on the mature Nasdaq market than those that choose to list on China's second board, which is expected to be up and running within a year. The market will be similar to Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market and Nasdaq, and Chinese regulators hope local high-tech start-ups will list domestically instead of eyeing overseas markets. So do the multitude of venture capital firms that have been set up by local governments or large conglomerates in recent months. Wang Xuezong, general manager of Shanghai Corun Venture Capital, established this April, is optimistic and says China still does not have enough venture capital firms to fund its growing IT industry. Corun typifies the rush to climb aboard the venture capital bandwagon. The firm, which has a registered capital of 30 million yuan ($6.07 million), is an offshoot of a privately run textiles company. "Some of these venture capitalists don't even know how to value a company. They are not short of money but they are short of professional managers," Lehman Brothers China managing director Li Shan said. The drive to set up domestic VC firms is also politically motivated and reflects the Government's nervousness about allowing a free flow of news online, especially politically sensitive information. Buddhist meditation sect falun gong, banned after followers surrounded Beijing's Zhongnanhai leadership compound last April to protest government restrictions, has organised protests through the Internet. Unsurprisingly, China has grown increasingly nervous about allowing foreign control of the Internet and barred foreign investment in Internet content and service providers last September after millions of dollars of foreign money had already poured into the sector. China's Information Industry Minister Wu Jichuan has indicated a change in policy might be forthcoming after the country joins the World Trade Organisation – as early as this year. China's officials are trying to get the domestic venture capital sector up and running before then so it is not decimated by a flood of foreign capital. Vantong International CEO Wang Gongquan said most domestic venture capital firms were only about a year old, and did not have a huge amount of money at their disposal or the experience to attract foreign venture capitalists for a second round of funding. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! 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Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Wed Apr 26 17:42:21 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA69009; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:42:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA69002 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:42:17 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 3237 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Apr 2000 07:42:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20000426074214.3236.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:42:14 EST Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:42:14 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: CNET - AOL's "youth filters" protect kids from Democrats To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello A story on AOL and the 'protection' they offer kids from the supposed more unsavoury parts of the net. But as was noted on another mailing list I am on, they are quite selective on what they choose to filter. I particularly like this one: "Sites promoting gun use are available, including Colt, Browning and the National Rifle Association. But prominent gun safety organizations are blocked, including the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Safer Guns Now and the Million Mom March." And "None of the blocked sites contain depictions of nudity or even models in swimwear." What is it about the conservative USA that thinks guns are OK but "Ralph Nader's Green Party or Ross Perot's Reform Party" are not??? Or is it just AOL? Cheers David AOL's "youth filters" protect kids from Democrats April 24, 2000 http://www.news.com/Perspectives/Column/0,176,421,00.html America Online provides "youth filters" that are supposed to keep kids out of dangerous Web sites--but they seem designed to eliminate creeping liberalism. For example, if you've set up AOL to restrict your children to "Kids Only" Web sites: • Your children can easily view the site of the Republican National Committee, but the Democratic National Committee is blocked. • Children can call up the conservative Constitution Party and Libertarian Party, both of which are promoting their own U.S. presidential candidates. But if they attempt to view Ralph Nader's Green Party or Ross Perot's Reform Party, they see only a "not appropriate for children" error. AOL's "Young Teens" filter, designed for older children, allows a few more Web sites to be viewed. The apparent political bias, however, remains the same: • Sites promoting gun use are available, including Colt, Browning and the National Rifle Association. But prominent gun safety organizations are blocked, including the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Safer Guns Now and the Million Mom March. None of the blocked sites contain depictions of nudity or even models in swimwear. "It's not just indecency that AOL is trying to keep away from children," says Susan Wishnetsky, a Chicago librarian. As a board member of a youth rights organization, Wishnetsky feels the dominant Internet service provider is "eliminating the scope of experience kids have access to." AOL spokesman Rich D'Amato said today that he was "unaware of any conservative bias" in the youth filters used by the service. The software firm that produces the filtering rules is The Learning Company, a unit of toymaker Mattel, which the toymaker says it plans to sell off. Susan Getgood, general manager of The Learning Company's "Cyber Patrol" division, said her group "uses a 'whitelist' approach," in which a specific list of sites is approved for young children. Getgood denied that the list has a deliberate slant. "We have a regular process of reviewing sites that are submitted, and if they meet our criteria they are added," she said. "If some sites are included, it's probably because someone submitted them." AOL's latest software, version 5.0, was tested by viewing more than 100 political sites over a period of several days. AOL's filters for children consistently allowed the viewing of far more conservative sites than Democratic and liberal sites. The selection remained consistent throughout the testing period. Surprisingly, I found that even those children who were limited to the most restrictive "Kids Only" filter could, in some circumstances, view sex sites that were recently visited by adults. After putting the "Kids Only" setting in place, typing a Web address such as Sex.com initially results in a "not appropriate" error and the site is blocked. But if Sex.com had recently been visited by an adult user of that computer, simply clicking the browser's Back button and then the Forward button causes the site to appear on screen in its full, lusty glory. The browser, as originally configured, can store recently visited sites in its cache memory for weeks. (Sophisticated PC users can turn this feature off in an advanced dialog box.) How would a child find out which sites an adult had recently visited? Child's play. AOL conveniently stores in plain text all the addresses the adult user recently visited. Simply look in the file named "Dad.arl" (or similar). Children who share an AOL account with their parents could rattle off their parents' favorite sites at the dinner table. This would surely lead to a heart-warming discussion of family values. The average child in the United States sees 200,000 killings, stabbings and beatings on television by the age of 18, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The academy cites numerous scientific studies demonstrating that many children learn violent behavior from shows they watch. After a few years of exposure to television, it's hard to imagine that anything on the Internet would be worth filtering out--even if the filters worked. Do you know of a problem affecting consumers? Send info to tips@brianlivingston.com. He'll send you a book of high-tech secrets free if you're the first to submit a tip he prints. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Thu Apr 27 01:58:23 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA106306; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:58:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA106299 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:58:18 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 12316 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Apr 2000 15:58:16 -0000 Message-ID: <20000426155816.12315.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:58:16 EST Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:58:16 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Australian sex industry threatens revenge on MPs To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hi Applers This may be of interest to some of you. Coverage from The Independent newspaper in the UK about how the adult industry in Australia is unhappy about the way the government wants to regulate what Australians currently call X-rated movies. Cheers David Australian sex industry threatens revenge on MPs By Kathy Marks in Sydney http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Australasia/2000-04/aussiesex260400.shtml 26 April 2000 It is the type of threat to make a politician shiver, and certainly not with pleasure. The Australian sex industry yesterday warned MPs opposed to a relaxation in the classification of X-rated videos that it would make it a political issue in marginal constituencies. The Eros Foundation, the industry's lobby group, said it was prepared to use its extensive mailing list in an aggressive campaign to target subscribers in marginal seats held by politicians from the right-wing, rural-based National Party. The National Party, which governs Australia in coalition with the conservative Liberal Party of the Prime Minister John Howard, is resisting moves to change the X-rating of videos to "non-violent erotica". They want the word erotica replaced with the more loaded term, pornography. Robbie Swan, a spokesman for Eros made plain yesterday that theirs was no idle threat. "I think there are a number of National Party MPs in marginal electorates, such as Larry Anthony, who wouldn't want this brought up as a political issue," he said. He said Mr Anthony's marginal seat in northern New South Wales contained 4,797 purchasers of sex products – 6.2 per cent of the electorate. "And when you think that most of those buyers are in a relationship with someone, that figure doubles," Mr Swan said, somewhat optimistically. In total, he said, there were 1.1 million Australians who could be targeted with political information by the industry within 48 hours. Earlier this month a Senate committee recommended that the rating be changed. De-Anne Kelly, a North Queensland National MP who has led the campaign to persuade the Cabinet to adopt the word pornography, was unmoved yesterday. She said: "I and my colleagues who raised this matter initially aren't going to be put off." ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Clubs - Got an interest? Build a Club. * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 28 17:40:51 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA147211; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:40:50 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA147207 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:40:47 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 19855 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Apr 2000 07:40:34 -0000 Message-ID: <20000428074034.19854.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:40:34 EST Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:40:34 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Independent - Mobiles auction ends with Hutchison taking newcomer's licence for £4.4bn To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello all Well, the British governemnt has made squillions out of the auction for mobile phone spectrum, possibly meaning the UK will have high mobile telephony charges according to some, but at least the government hasn't undersold something. "In total, the auction raised almost £22.5bn for the Treasury – over seven times the estimates." Cheers David Mobiles auction ends with Hutchison taking newcomer's licence for £4.4bn By Bill McIntosh http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Business/Inside_Business/2000-04/mobile280400.shtml 28 April 2000 Canada'S Telesystem International Wireless (TIW), with powerful financial backing from Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong conglomerate, yesterday emerged as the surprise winner of the next-generation UMTS mobile phone licence reserved for a new entrant, with an offer of nearly £4.4bn. With TIW securing licence A, that left Vodafone AirTouch, which bid £5.96bn, with licence B, which offered the most spectrum capacity to an existing operator. British Telecom and One2One prevailed for licences C and D with respective offers just over £4bn, while Orange won licence E, bidding almost £4.1bn. In total, the auction raised almost £22.5bn for the Treasury – over seven times the estimates. Canning Fok, managing director of Hutchison Whampoa, said: "We we want to build the best system in the UK. This will be the latest technology." He also shrugged off the expense of the licence: "We believe this business will be more valuable than a second-generation GSM business." Although TIW will be the official licence holder, its British subsidiary will set up a joint venture with Hutchison receiving a 90 per cent stake. In turn, that joint venture, in which TIW holds 10 per cent, will finance the licence purchase and an expected £5bn investment to develop the country's fifth mobile phone network. The joint venture company will own all of licence A's network capacity. Hutchison Whampoa, controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing, among Hong Kong's richest businessmen, is no stranger to Britain, having bankrolled Orange before selling out its remaining 45 per cent interest in November when Mannesmann bought the number three UK mobile group for £20bn. Hutchison's profit on the Orange sale topped £9bn and earlier this year it paid C$150m (£64m) for a 5 per cent stake in TIW. TIW gained the upper hand when NTL Mobile, a joint venture of the UK cable operator and France Telecom, withdrew yesterday. "We reached a point where other ways of doing this looked more attractive," said a spokesman, who added that NTL would still look at ways to offer mobile services to its cable customers. A relative unknown, TIW is based in Montreal and listed on the Toronto stock exchange with a market capitalisation of C$3.5bn. In addition to operating the Dolphin mobile radio network in the UK, TIW has interests in networks in Romania, Brazil, India and China. Bruno Ducharme, president and chief executive of TIW, said the company's surprise victory here opens the door to further next-generation mobile licence bids in France and Germany, possibly in partnership with Hutchison. Mr Ducharme justified the high licence cost, noting: "Mobile is where fixed-line telephony was five or six years ago [before the internet]. [Mobile will become] a completely different business than it is now." Other mobile executives echoed those views. Hans Snook, chief executive of Orange, said the licence price would appear cheap within two years as the full potential of multi-media and e-commerce services became apparent. "People are going to be using wirefree devices as electronic wallets," Mr Snook said. "When that happens, the opportunity to take just a tiny bit of transaction revenue from the transactions generated [over mobile phones] will create a huge revenue opportunity." BT, meanwhile, criticised Vodafone's £5.96bn bid for licence B. It said the extra spectrum capacity gained by Vodafone at nearly £2bn was worth only £400m than the lower capacity licences. The UK's biggest network operator, however, remained bullish. "If you look back in history, almost every forecast in this industry has been exceeded," said Tim Harrabin, who headed Vodafone's bidding team. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Movies - Find out what's on at the local cinema with Yahoo! Movies * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 28 21:47:00 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA148531; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:46:59 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA148527 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:46:56 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 9345 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Apr 2000 11:46:53 -0000 Message-ID: <20000428114653.9344.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:46:53 EST Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:46:53 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: PC World - Governments Clamp Down on Net To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello all A report from Freedom House on censorship of the net that will interest a few. The complete report is available from their web site at http://www.freedomhouse.org. Cheers David Governments Clamp Down on Net Freedom of press under attack worldwide, report says. by Reuters April 27, 2000, 7:42 a.m. PT Censorship of the Internet by governments is spreading and may become a threat to traditional media liberty, a report on press freedom says. "The explosion of news and information on the World Wide Web is tempting governments, developed and developing, politically free and not free, to consider restricting content on the Internet," says the report, conducted by human rights group Freedom House. The group's 22nd annual survey of press freedom, entitled "Censor Dot Gov: The Internet and Press Freedom 2000," says governments may use several methods to restrict information on the Internet, including devising Internet-explicit licensing and regulation, applying existing restrictive print and broadcast laws to the Web, filtering Internet content through control of the servers or using government servers to censor incoming news and information, and censoring electronic content deemed unacceptable after dissemination. "The independence of the Internet becomes the newest test of a government's will to encourage and sustain a free press," says survey coordinator Leonard Sussman in an essay accompanying the 36-page report. The report says some countries restrict Internet access "on the pretext of protecting the public from subversive ideas or violation of national security." In some parts of Asia, for example, the stated goal of protecting traditional "Asian values" is being used as the pretext to control Internet information and access. In the Middle East Internet censorship is being promoted under the banner of protecting morality, the report says. Not Only Overseas "Not only countries with records of not free or partly free news media contemplate controlling the Internet. In 1996, the Clinton administration tried to block pornography on the Internet with the Communications Decency Act, but the law was shot down by the Supreme Court," the report says. Citing a report by Reporters Sans Frontieres, it listed Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam as countries that totally or mostly control Internet access. The annual survey, released ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, said 63 percent of the world's countries restrict print and electronic journalists and 80 percent of the world's people live in countries with a less than free press. Globally, only 69 countries have a free press, where the flow of information is unrestricted, 51 have a partly free news media, and 66 countries have government control over print and broadcast systems. ===== David Goldstein Schallmooser Haupstr. 40/3 A-5020 Salzburg Austria email: Goldstein_David@yahoo.com.au phone: +43 699 1097 6197 (mobile) _____________________________________________________________________________ http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Movies - Find out what's on at the local cinema with Yahoo! Movies * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 28 22:00:40 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA148593; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:00:39 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA148590 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:00:36 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 10885 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Apr 2000 12:00:34 -0000 Message-ID: <20000428120034.10884.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:00:34 EST Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:00:34 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: Fletcher Research's analysis of the future of 'free' Internet access in Europe To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk For those with an interest in the European so-called 'free' ISPs, Fletcher Research have analysed what they think is the future of this model. In a nutshell, they think it won't last more than another couple of years, and then consumers will pay a flat rate for unlimited Internet use, which is starting already. Cheers David ***************************************************** EUROPE'S FREE INTERNET LUNCH FADES AWAY By Lars Godell, Forrester Research Flat-rate Internet usage by new ISPs will stir Europe's Net access markets, but an unsustainable business model will kill the idea within two years. Instead, flat rates will speed ISP consolidation and herald the end of the subscription-free Internet access model. Last year, European consumers began their love affair with subscription-free ISPs like Freeserve. But these users still pay metered telephone charges to their local telco. After months of competitive and political pressure in Europe, ISPs have begun rolling out a new service -- flat-rate Internet access. * Consumers pay a flat rate for unlimited Internet use. Under the new model, users get unmetered Internet access in exchange for paying a flat rate that includes the cost of calling their ISP. Users still pay for their monthly telephone line rental and for non-Internet telephone calls. * Denmark and Norway move first. Users in Denmark got flat rates in January through CyberCity, which offers unlimited Internet surfing for setup and monthly charges of 133.70 euros and 66.50 euros respectively. CyberCity moved the service into Norway in March with setup and monthly charges of 123.40 euros and 73.80 euros. * The UK and Germany will follow soon. ISP latecomers like search engine AltaVista and cable operator Telewest promise UK service by April. But the strings attached vary. AltaVista will offer unlimited Internet usage for between 6 euros and 12 euros per year plus a sign-up fee of 21 euros to 30 euros. NTL will require customers to switch their entire phone service to the ISP. Retailer Toys "R" Us will offer unlimited Internet usage for life for a single startup fee of 30 euros Starting June 1, and BT's customers can pay 18 euros per month for unlimited Internet access. And by midsummer, Deutsche Telekom will introduce flat-rate Internet access for less than 51.20 euros per month. UNLIMITED INTERNET ACCESS CAN'T LAST Flat-rate service is a great customer acquisition tool for ISP latecomers since it offers cheap Net access to users. However, Forrester believes unmetered access is an unsustainable business model. Here's why: * Price wars lead to little loyalty. Price-based competition creates a viscous circle for ISPs, as customer acquisition costs and churn skyrocket and differentiation evaporates. Unfaithful flat-rate users will keep looking for an ever better deal and force free ISPs to offer more and more free incentives, pushing them deeper into the red. * Profits are too far away. Free ISPs already lose. And flat-rate access will destroy their business model, which was built around call revenue sharing with telcos. Freeserve stands to lose 50% of its revenues with flat rates. And ISPs can't expect eCommerce and advertising revenues to plug the massive black hole in revenue. They will be forced to cut their losses by giving up their unmetered and free Internet offerings. * Devices and technologies proliferate. Flat-rate PC-based access won't travel to mobile devices and access via broadband technologies like ADSL and LMDS. The high costs of supporting multiple Net devices will force ISPs to make heavy investments in infrastructure. THE ISP MARKET SHAKES OUT Flat-rate access is the latest gimmick to draw an audience in a highly competitive market. Forrester believes Europe's flirtation with a free Internet lunch will disappear within two years. Here's what the next few years will bring: * The market will splinter into varying service levels. Expect big players like T-Online and AOL Europe to offer different service levels from different subsidiaries. Telenor's Frisurf customers will put up with no standard customer service as long as the access is cheap or free. They will accept calling expensive premium service numbers when they need service. Users in the midrange and high-end markets want access to customer service 24 hours a day and will be willing to pay the price. * Cross-channel providers like incumbent telcos will dominate. Europe's incumbent telcos already have millions of customers and multiple-device experience and networks, from mobile to cable. This will be important as the winning players transform into integrated relationship managers. Incumbents will find it easy to weave Internet access into all products -- integrating the Net into service bundles like unified messaging and voice calls. ISP pure plays like Freeserve and mobile-oriented players like Orange and Vodafone will lose. * Consolidation takes off. Steep losses among the flat-rate and free ISPs will lead to consolidation within two years. Free ISPs like Freeserve and AltaVista will partner with telcos like BT and Deutsche Telekom. Expanding the value proposition of the Internet beyond just PC-based access will enable ISPs to charge for subscriptions and usage again. Copyright (c) 2000 Forrester Research, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this publication in any form without prior written permission is forbidden. Technographics is a trademark of Forrester Research, Inc. and Forrester is a trademark of Forrester Research, Inc. ***************************************** WE HAVE MOVED! 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Movies * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net * From owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Fri Apr 28 23:55:56 2000 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA149212; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:55:55 +1000 (EST) Received: from web1301.mail.yahoo.com (web1301.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.151]) by whois.apnic.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA149209 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:55:52 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 28539 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Apr 2000 13:55:50 -0000 Message-ID: <20000428135550.28538.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.83.183.204] by web1301.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:55:50 EST Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:55:50 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Goldstein?= Subject: SMH - Web of intrigue To: APPLe MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-apple@lists.apnic.net Precedence: bulk Hello all A story from today's/tomorrow's/some other day's Sydney Morning Herald on censorship, and in particular Internet censorship, around Asia. The story is quite long, so if you wish to see it, go to http://www.smh.com.au/news/0004/29/spectrum/spectrum1.html or if you would like to print it, use this version, http://www.smh.com.au/news/0004/29/text/spectrum1.html. Cheers David Web of intrigue The freedom of the Internet threatens Asia's information-controlling authoritarian states. Yet, as Louise Williams reports, they also want to be at the forefront of the IT revolution sweeping the world. Information is power, or so the enduring dictators of history have understood. The authoritarian, or quasi-authoritarian regimes, of the post-colonial era in Asia have understood well the relationship between control over information and political power. In so many of Asia's capitals - from Beijing to Jakarta, from Rangoon to Hanoi, the scene was much the same. In obscure back rooms, rows of desks were lined up, their surfaces rubbed smooth by years of diligent effort, as the faceless agents of authoritarian states dutifully pored over newspapers and magazines. Carefully, the swarms of censors cut out "subversive" articles from abroad, one by one, or bent low over "offensive" captions and photographs and blacked them out by hand. They laboured over their own newspapers, too, erasing hints of rebellion and allusion to unpalatable truths tucked within the reams of propaganda which served as their societies' only sources of information. ... _____________________________________________________________________________ http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Movies - Find out what's on at the local cinema with Yahoo! Movies * APPLe: To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe" to apple-request@apnic.net *